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Show Giilli II AUSTlGRiS Becomes Bigger Trade Than In Villa's Hey-Dcy on Mexican Border VIENNA. Sept. 25 Gun-running find arms ."murrpllng has Im onie a lli: ger trade In Austria than It was on the Mexican frontier In Villa's palmiest days The country Is full of military material ma-terial while Hungary, Poland and Jugo-S!uvla nre munitions hungry and the result Is to make a market so tempting that the risks are dlsregard- d If the Socialist organs are to be i redited. howevi r nt least some of the trade Is done under the auspices of ei rtulu entente government? as well as the conservative clement of the Austrian government. Within the hst few days the police made known that they had discovered an organization for running military material Into Hungary and mad.- two arrests . Une of the men was an em? ploye of the Wollersdorf munitions factory, a government plant. Workmen's Work-men's councillors have H good organization organi-zation and are constantly on the watch for railway shipments of arms and cartridges, but In on- government office of-fice it was admitted that for eery carload deterled and stopped nlno got away over the frontiers. Frederick Adler, th.? Socialist leader, lead-er, has declared that groat quantities of urius were being smuggled from the country and It was the duty of the workmen to find a way to stop It. The allied control commission has Issued an order prohibiting the further fur-ther sale of government -owned arms or munitions or that in possession of the private concerns organised to trade in demobilized material Many of these concerns were made up of the numbers of the official demobilization commissions who sold lo themselves. There seems little doubt now that a recent raid on the Furstcnfeld arsenal was the work 01 former Austrian officers of-ficers now In the Austrian legion of the Hungarian army, aided by Hungarian Hunga-rian officers A later raid on the Hart berg arsenal semis to have been done by neighboring peasants. They urn said to have been Inspired by thi-threats thi-threats of tho workmen to raid the farms for food |